Blank-form book.



A. M. SINCLAIR.

BLANK FORM BOOK. APPLIUATION FILED 1 110.31, 1913.

Patented Nov. 3, 1914.

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THE NORRIS PETERS CO. PHOTD-LITHQ, WASHINGTON. D. C.

' To all whom it may concern BLANK-FORM BOOK.

Be it known that I, ALEXANDER M; SIN- CLAIR, a citizen of the United States of mg the individual form sheets at one end stub of the next superposed check.

specification.

the topmost one, the portion ofthe same cloth binding at the edges, cannot be detion at that point of the notch in the check is located a substantial distance to the rear America, and resident of New York, in the State of New York, have invented certain new and useful Improvements in Blank- Form Books, of which the following 1 is a The object of the present invention is to provide a book orpad of blank forms,-such for example as bonds, certificates, checks, notes, receipts, vouchers or other forms, the individual sheets of which are so bound together as to permit ready removal in regular order from the top of the pad, but which do not permit removal in integral condition of any intermediate sheet below the top sheet. This object is accomplished by bind into a block or pad, by means of a strip of binding muslin, paper, or similar appro-. priate material or substance, which extends around the end and partly along each of the two vertical sides of the pad to a point at which the individual sheets are each provided with a notch or nick in its edge. The weakened or perforated line across the sheet dividing the stub from the check proper is located within the binding, namely between the said nick or notch and the end of the pad bound by the cloth. The result is that when carefully removed at the top, an entlre check may be detached at the line of weakening, as intended, leaving the stub. But when it is attempted to remove any check below between the stub and the nick being held by Specification of Letters Patent. Application filed December 31, 1913. Serial N 0. 809,648.

" is a top-view of a the sheet, a nick or the bound check or checks above and by the tached, and the'check tears, starting in at one edge wherethe bindingfcloth termlnates, said tearing being facilitated by the locawhere it starts totear. The weakened line of the end of the binding, whereby access to the signature stub of a subjacent check cannotbe had without removlng the signature In the accompanying drawing, Figure '1 TO HOOPER V. V. SINCLAIR,

pad of forms, embodying the invention, Fig. 2 is a side-elevationlof the same, and Fig. 3 is a horizonta on l1ne33 of Fig. 2. i

1 section Similar reference numerals indicate cor responding partsrin all the figures.

The individual sheets are superposed and bound at one end 10 other strong cloth binding material to the sheets with a suitable padding com;

30 glued position. The strip extends along the verti cal sides 11 and end and is likewise the sheets. The line rating the coupon or glued at said stub portion 12 of the pad adjacent said,

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by a strip of muslin or sides to I 13 of weakening sepa 14 from the body or mainpo'rtion 15 "of the sheet eX-y tends across the'sheet from top a point-between the end 10 of the sheet and the terminations of the binding material at the vertlcal sides ofthe pad, and erably removed back a considerable" 16, 17, where the made in each sheet,

the same *is otherwise completed.

notches, 18, 19, are notof such d e the body of the sheet as to interfer is prefto bottom, at I c D 7 distance from said ends or terminations 16, 17, so as to be spaced therefrom. Atv the places binding terminates, is, at top and bottom of notch, the same being tool or'machinein the or after,

These pth into e inany way with the proper handling of the same when detached. I form as shown, or they may be of They may be angular any other shape breaking the continuity of the edge of the sheet. A simple slit in. the paperinward will serve the same from the edge,

single perforatlon as also will a adjacent the edge, or a line of perforations across the sheet.

portion 15 of the uppermost sheet is by the hand. The sheet is" then 1 said free'end until sheet betweenthe ends 16, 17 of the cloth and the line of'weakening13 loosened and detached from the Then by tively to said line of weakening sheet is caused to tear on said line For detaching -.sheets consecutively from said pad, the free end 21 of the main.

rasped ifted by.

binding becomes the portion 22 of the g binding.

" pulling the sheet angularly rela v13, the

whereby the main portion is detached, leaving the stub 14.

I claim: 1. A blank-form book or pad, comprislng When it is attempted to detach an intera plurality of superposed form sheets havmediate sheet, by an angular pulling of the same, the strain does not reach the line of weakening 13, because that portion 22 of the sheet between the ends 16, 17, of the binding and the line of weakening 13 is not detached from the binding and cannot be detached without first detaching the overlying sheets.

The sheet attempted to be removed is therefore firmly held, and the angular strain thereon causes the same to tear off approxn mately on the line 20 between the notches 18, 19, oron any rough line from the notch wherethe tear starts to the other side of the sheet. Thus the piece of paper which is ob tained comprises only a part of themain form or blank, which is useless in itself, and which shows by the part remaining in the pad that the same was irregularly removed. In Fig. 2 is shown at 23 the space remaining when such irregular removal of a sheet is made. e

As a further protection and to show that the sheet so, irregularly removed is not complete, safety numeral may be printed thereon, which may be the same numeral as the consecutive number of the blank-form in itsseries, Such a numeral is shown at 24:, the number in the case of the wrongfully detached sheet being 2570. A part of the numeral, for example the first two figures, are printed on that portion 22 of the sheet which must remain, while/the remainder, the figures 70, is printed on the main portion 15 of the sheet, at the other side of the notch from the figures 25. The two portions make up thecomplete number of the form, which is shown complete at the point 26 on the main portion'15, of the sheet. Thus by the fact'that the number is incomplete at the left-hand corner of the wrongfully detached sheet, attention is called to the fact that the sheet in itself is incomplete.

It is obvious that any desired blank forms can be made up. 111 the manner shown, that is to. say, the invention may be applied to any form of blank requiring security against detachmentout of regular order. The portion 22 01: the sheet may be of such size as to receive a signature or other matter necessary to. give validity tothe whole form, such validating matter. 27 being placed on the sheet, before they are padded, and being therefore unbtainable thereafter with any sheetnot detached in regular order.

"The" invention provides a convenient means ofguarding against the irregular use of. consecutively numbered blank or partially filled forms, and'is an efiicient aid in the ordeigly t ansaction of business and accounts was tet formsand means binding the sheets together at their edges at the vertical sides of the pad, at said end, and between said end and said notches, said binding extending to the notches and including the portion of the sheet between the same and said line of weakening and said line of weakening being located a substantial distance to the rear of the front end of the binding.

2. A blank-form book or pad, comprising a. plurality of superposed form sheets having a line of weakening near one end, notches in the top and bottom edges of the sheets, and -means binding the sheets together at their edges at the vertical sides of the pad, at said end and between said end and said notches, said binding extending to the notches and including the portion of the sheet between the same and said line of weakening and said line of weakening being located a substantial distance to the rear of the front end of the binding.

'3. A blank-form book or pad, comprising a plurality of superposed form sheets having a line of weakening near one end, notches in the top and bottom edges of the sheets, means binding the sheets together at their edges at the vertical sides of the pad, at said end and between said end and said notches, said binding extending to the notches and including the portion of the sheet between the same and said line of weakening, said portion of the sheet being of such shape as to'receive. and containing when padded, matter validating the sheet for use, a complete numeral printed at one portion of the sheet visible when regularly or irregularly. detached, and a safety-numeral printed partly at one side and partly at the other side of one of said notches and said line of weakening being located'a substantial distance to the rear of thefront end of the binding.

4. A blank-form book or pad, comprising a plurality of superposed form sheets of elongated form, bound on one end and on a portion only of the two adjacent vertical edges, and having the fourth edge unbound, and a line of weakening transversely of the sheets near said end and between the vertical bound edges and said line of weakening being located a substantial distance to the rear of the front end of the binding.

5. A blank-form book or pad, comprising a plurality of superposed form sheets bound on one vertical edge and on a portion only of the two adjacent vertical edges, and hav- 1 g h fourth d un nd, and avi a line of weakening removed from said end In testimony that I claim the foregoing as and extending transversely of the sheet bemy invention, I have signed my name in 10 tween 55nd adjacent ve1"}i1:ica%1 edges, and halil presence of two subscribing Witnesses. ing a ank s ace on t e s eet between t e 5 ends of the bir iding and said line of Weaken- ALEXANDER SINCLAIR ing and said line of weakening being located Vitnesses: a substantial distance to the rear of the front G; LEVY, end of the binding. ALEX DAVIS.

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. Washington, D. G. 

